2. In Dec, I reported Kuwait – under political pressure – moved their annual party from 4 Seasons to the Trump Hotel https://t.co/EgSBgvoafn
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 26, 2017
“Trump can’t be bought!” said the Trumplodytes. Yeah, but he can be rented — and for a surprising reasonable fee, given the (previous) value of the office he’s currently befouling…
4. And tonight, by TOTAL COINCIDENCE, Trump is dropping by the Trump Hotel. He's there right now https://t.co/Fefksx6n3L pic.twitter.com/wWXb1NrALB
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 26, 2017
8. From the White House press pool: "The pool is holding in vans and not being allowed inside the [Trump] hotel."
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 26, 2017
CAN’T THANK YOU GUYS ENOUGH, REPUBLICANS!
hellslittlestangel
I’m sure Trump will ask these foreign Muslims for their papers. Green papers bearing dead presidents.
amk
Is the wh cesspool learning?
amk
trump can’t be bought, he can be rented.
ouch. meanie annie.
Omnes Omnibus
He’s not even pretending not to be corrupt.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This is what the voters of western Wisconsin and northern Michigan wanted! A president who’s in touch with the Kuwaiti royal family!
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: He didn’t during the election either. Why should he change now?
lollipopguild
It is so blatantly obvious that I laughed out loud when I read the story. Can you imagine the heads exploding if Hilz did something like this as President?
Hal
@lollipopguild: Please. Hillary Clinton would be impeached by now.
Lyrebird
@lollipopguild:
No. Because the effing hypocrites in the House and Senate woulda been chasing after Pres HRC with their zeal about emoluments if she’d retained control over a single B&B, but IOKIYAR.
I try to remember that congresscritters are human, but the smarmy letter I got from Toomey about his complete confidence in Sessions upholding the law has been testing that… Sessions wants to bring us back to a pre-1850 view of civil rights, with chain gangs and everything (Google private prisons…).
ETA: Or, what Hal said. :-)
amk
lollipopguild
@Hal: You are correct, the repthugs would have impeached her the day after the election.
chris
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I wonder how they were treated at the border? Kid gloves or rubber?
hilts
OT
Just wanted to acknowledge the birthday of the late, great George Harrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp-bUbCt9uo
http://boingboing.net/2017/02/01/an-extended-version-of-the-bea.html
amk
@chris: most likely twitler was at the airport literally ki$$ing their rings.
debit
@amk:
Not kissing. Trying to suck them off.
amk
any idea who is hosting the wh press corpse shindig this year?
Jeffro
@debit: The rings, or…?
lollipopguild
@debit: The rings? Or something else?
SiubhanDuinne
Trump nor any member of his family should not be allowed within, I’m going to be generous here, 1/2 mile of any income-generating Trump property anywhere in the world for the duration of his presidency. I’m even willing (not happily) to spot him Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago, since those are arguably his residences, but no Trump-owned or -labelled hotels, office buildings, apartment complexes, golf courses, retail malls, mixed-use developments, or casinos.
D58826
Now we know why he stayed in Washington this weekend rather than heading off to Fla.
lollipopguild
@SiubhanDuinne: He is going to spend every weekend at Mar-a-Largo unless he is at one of his other properties. The tax payers will be paying Billions in travel expenses for him and his family.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Brevity wields a mighty editing pen.
amk
@SiubhanDuinne: nice fantasy.
SiubhanDuinne
@amk:
Thanks. I like it myself, but then I always did have an out-of-control imagination.
Starfish
How is this possible? I thought we were supposed to be afraid of foreigners, and here he is meeting with them in his hotel.
Also, I thought his company was not going to have overseas businesses so what’s up with this?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
more news from the Delaware special election
amk
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: While I am happy for the dems crushing it, the reported turnout was still piss poor 40%.
Mike in NC
Read that Trump travel expenses for his first month were roughly equal to what Obama cost in a year.
MTmofo
There were further developments. See Legum’s update tweets. Kuwait party was this past Wed.
But Trump IS on the property tonight. See @bennyjohnson tweets.
amk
@Mike in NC: traitorship costs money, dood.
ThresherK
@hellslittlestangel: Woebetide the fella who.shows up with tens and hundreds.
Another Scott
@MTmofo: J was at an ACA rally/march called by Our Revolution today in DC. They went past the Old Post Office, and I’m sure they gave ’em an ear full. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
LanceThruster
Grifting gobshite.
Ruckus
Don’t we have a word for people who sell themselves for short time use? Know I’ve heard it before but I can’t quite put my finger on it………
OTHO It may be that the people who sell themselves for sex are whole lot more honorable that the assclown who sells himself for attention.
maryQ
Don’t just thank Republicans, though they own the biggest share of this shit show. Idiot “progressives” who protest voted surely get a piece here.
Dave
@amk: And what’s normal turnout for these elections. That context is important.
TenguPhule
When trump buys the farm, no jury in the US is going to be able to convict the citizen that does it.